2010-03-23

LITT Meeting - March 23, 2010

8:00 - 11:00 AM Elementary
1:00 - 4:00 PM Secondary

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Welcome and District Business

Opening Discussion

Ed Tech Profile

• Site: http://www.edtechprofile.org
• Status Update: District Completion Report
• Brief Data Review: District Proficiency Analysis Report?
• Video: How To Run A Proficiency Analysis Report For Your Site

Supplemental Survey

• Live Survey: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dHZqSXFtUk41MnJQQ1pEb1paVV9OVXc6MA
• Short URL for Live Survey (Send this friendly URL to your staff!): http://goo.gl/QjXp
• Status & Results: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ar0UJdL6ppL3dHZqSXFtUk41MnJQQ1pEb1paVV9OVXc&hl=en
• Implementation Plan
• Timeline:
  • Send to staff now.
  • Survey DUE April 2, 2010
  • This leaves three weeks to gather stragglers before the next LITTs meeting.

Other Tech Planning Prep

• Committee and Subcommittees
  • Curriculum: Annette, Julie, Bonnie,
  • Professional Development: Amanda, Nadine, Abby, Cynthia
  • Infrastructure: Derek, Gina, Tim,
  • Funding: Robert, Christina,
  • Monitoring/Evaluation: Diane, Robert, Gail
• Stakeholders, Authors, Consultants, and Partners (Including Students)
  • Community Survey (Community Forum?)
  • Student Survey (Include Secondary Students on Committee?)
  • Vendors - HP? Cisco? Intel? Microsoft?
  • Parents (good contributors)
  • Students (from secondary sites) - invite a representative from each site (1 student panel after school meeting).
• Timeline
  • Guiding Questions - April 29
  • Rubric for Curriculum Section - May 27
  • Curriculum Draft Goals - July 1
  • Then establish summer and fall meetings and timeline.
  • December DUE Date (Probably Dec 3rd)
• Collaborative Tools: This Wiki and Google Docs...
• Tech Planning Resources

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Collaborative Tools

Focus Question

• What are your favorite collaboration tools? (And how do you use them?)
• Share links to your favorite tools below (if applicable):

Google Docs

• Create a new Gmail account or a new Google account .
• Associate Multiple Email Accounts with Your Google Account
• Review of Google Docs basics.
• Public Template Gallery
• Shared Folders
• Upload and Share Any Files
• Branching Logic (and Page Breaks) in Forms
• More: The Google Docs Blog (Don't miss the 2009 year in review post!)
• See Also: What's New in Google Docs?
• Additional Resource: Creating Quizes in Google Docs via Jimbo Lamb (@misterlamb) - IF formulas are the key. :)
• Consider: Google Docs as part of Project Based Learning.
• Google Docs Proof-of-Concept Projects - An example of something students would make or do, a teacher would use, or a LITT would use for professional development. Share links to your published projects below:
  • Your Links Here
  • https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEM5U2I4bjFZSUhrTUM0WXR5Mjd4ZVE6MA
  • http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AZtc2Fs4xgkhZGZ3MjM2ZDlfMGN6djNzYmdz&hl=en
  • https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGRkb2xtSkdhWXpxVWF0VVdSajA2d3c6MA
  • http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0As_t-URsyULndDNwTGNfVEZIMTdMdXlPQWItampYZ3c&hl=en
  • No link- Here's what I did...I discovered how to create folders (labels) with documents to share across our 4th grade colleagues in RBUSD. I invited my 4th grade team to share these resources as well as Samantha Leddell our professional development facilitator. -Amanda Steinacher, Alta Vista

Note: You can setup Google Apps: Education Edition for your own domain. It might be easiest to setup Google Apps: Standard Edition so you can setup a new domain for $10 - and then request an upgrade to education edition.

Even More Google (Time Permitting)

• Google Maps (New Content: Photos, Videos, Wikipedia, Webcams)
  • Also, check out the Haiti image layer in Earth...
  • And more cool updates to Maps and Earth - Like the Olympics in 3D!
• Google Voice
• Google Wave
• Mobile (Including Goggles)
• Google Apps Innovation: Year In Review
• The Official Google Blog Directory
• And don't miss the latest Google Teacher Academy Resources .

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Closing

Reflection Activity

• How can Google Docs help you in your teaching? (And how can it help your students, if applicable?)
• How can Google Docs help you as a LITT with ed tech planning?
• How else can you use this tool?

Discussion: Summer LITTs Plans